[Fwd: [PCCLIST] White Paper: Issues Related to Non-Latin Characters in Name Authority Records]

[Jasmin Nof]

on second thought, considering the time line involved, maybe we need to 
be discussing this before convention...  jasmin

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Subject: 	[PCCLIST] White Paper: Issues Related to Non-Latin Characters 
in Name Authority Records
Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:11:26 -0500
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White Paper : Issues Related to non-Latin Characters in Name Authority 
Records

As previously announced, the Library of Congress and its major authority 
record exchange partners (British Library, Library and Archives Canada, 
National Library of Medicine, OCLC, Inc.) have agreed to a basic outline 
that will allow for the addition of non-Latin script references on name 
authority records distributed as part of the NACO program (no earlier 
than April 2008). Additional details about this project are contained in 
a White Paper drafted to frame many of the issues related to future 
policies for cataloger-added references to authority records that will 
follow an automatic pre-population of the authority records from 
relevant bibliographic data. The policies will be developed during a six 
month period following the automatic pre-population of the authority 
file. Members of the cataloging community are encouraged to review the 
White Paper and forward comments to the Cataloging Policy & Support 
Office ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html




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Jasmin Nof
Judaica and Hebraica Cataloger
Non-Roman Cataloging Team Leader
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University of Maryland
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